Life, home and pictures

Well, we are in our little home and finally settled in and getting comfy cozy in 650 square feet. I know it sounds tight, and it is, but we are enjoying the small space. Not so much to clean or worry about.

Language school starts at the end of August so right now we are doing something called "barefooting" Mon-Fri. from 7:30 a.m. - 11ish. While the kids are in school, we, along with 4 other missionaries, meet together with a spanish teacher who speaks to us only in Spanish and tries to teach us new phrases and lots and lots of Costa Rican culture. It has been very interesting to say the least. My new favorite phrase is "Epsanol es muy difficile para mi."

The kids are enjoying school and picking up one or two Spanish words a day. John is picking up like 20 a day while I am probably on the same pace as the kids.

Our house is nestled right across the street from a beautiful park. It is on a main road that is very noisy, but our fans drown out the noise at night. Besides, we like hearing all the hustle and bustle of life. A good perk of living on a busy street is that there are cool places all around us. For example, the chinese restaurant is literally in front of our house while the butcher and bakery are catty-corner. How cool is that? The other night we needed dinner and John just walked out our door and returned within 5 minutes with a $4 roasted chicken. Now that's the life! Pura Vida! And then, if we walk one block down there is a small grocery store, a convenient store, a salon, a pharmacy and the taxi line. We truly are centrally located. School is only 8 minutes away. The other missionaries are about 10 minutes from us as we chose to stay in the house we are in. Originally, they were going to move us to "Baptist Row" but we realized this location is amazing. So here we are!!!

There are lots of stories to tell, but that will have to be one day at a time. Just wanted to give you a head's up to our daily routine. You'd be amazed at how much we accomplished in one week. Today we finally got the last of our bags unpacked and it feels great to have a steady home for the next year.

Until tomorrow.....